New York, NY (Rap Newswire) January 28, 2009 - Five-time Grammy Award
winning recording artist and concert performer JOHN LEGEND will help kick
off Super Bowl XLIII as part of the pregame festivities at Raymond James
Stadium in Tampa Bay on Sunday, February 1, the NFL and NBC announced today.
This marks Legend's second Super Bowl appearance. Legend performed as
part of a Salute to Motown during the Super Bowl XL pregame show in Detroit.
Grammy-nominated recording artist, T-Pain, will join him on stage for an
electrifying version of "Green Light," Legend's current chart-topping single.
More than 148 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year's Super
Bowl, the most-watched television program in history. The pregame show
and Super Bowl XLIII will be broadcast worldwide to more than 230 countries
and territories.
The pregame and halftime shows are an NFL NETWORK PRODUCTION and will
be executive produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss of WHITE CHERRY
ENTERTAINMENT and by DON MISCHER PRODUCTIONS.
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